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By:: Andrea Meno

May 14, 2021

13 Odd (And Sometimes Terrifying) Now-You-Know Facts About Facebook

Somehow, Facebook thought it would be totally cool to run an experiment to try and influence the emotions of almost 700,000 people in real time. Here’s the full story, plus 12 others:

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What you post on Facebook can reveal if, say, you're a narcissist or have low self-esteem. Apparently, posting about your so is an indicator of likely low self-esteem, and posting about your exercise program, diet, or achievements is a sign of likely narcissism. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Science Daily

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There are about 116 million fake Facebook accounts. f f f f f f f f That's more than the population of the Philippines. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NYTimes, Our World In Data

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Teens from higher-income families don't use Facebook as much as teens from lower-income families. 4% of the former say it's the platform they use most often, but that number is 22% for the latter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Pew Research

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Facebook makes its users' emotions more in sync. A 2014 study found that rainfall in a city influenced the emotional content of Facebook statuses in a city, which influenced Facebook friends' statuses in other cities where there was no rainfall. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: PLOS One

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Blue is Facebook's dominant color because that worked best for Zuckerberg. He's red-green colorblind (which he realized thanks to an online test) and he says that blue is the richest color for me-I can see all of blue. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The New Yorker

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When Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in 2012, Instagram had 13 employees. te It had a grand total of 9 investors, too. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Business Insider

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Facebook's censorship is SO ridiculously strict, a breast cancer video had to hack it in an equally ridiculous way. V - Facebook took down a video from the Swedish Cancer Society's breast awareness video that had abstract illustrations of round breasts, so the society just made the breasts square and reuploaded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Science confirmed that lurking on Facebook is a good way to get driven into depression. That's what a University of Copenhagen study of almost 1,000 people found - and it also found that engaging rather than lurking leaves you feeling much better. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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The Like button was supposed to be called the Awesome button. Like But Zuckerberg nixed the idea and went with Like instead (other nixed ideas included a star and plus minus signs). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: TechCrunch

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In 2011, Facebook was mentioned in one third of all divorce filings. DIVORCE And in 2012, over four fifths of divorce lawyers in the U.S. said social networks' role in divorce proceedings was growing. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ABC

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Cops have been heavily relying on Facebook since as far back as 2012. In a 2012 survey, among cops who used social media, 80% of them said they use it to investigate crime. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Facebook shrinks your brain. n. accumbens That's the finding of a 2017 study, in which higher daily frequency of checking Facebook on the smartphone was robustly linked with smaller gray matter volumes of the nucleus accumbens. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: PubMed

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In 2014, Facebook ran an experiment to see if it can influence users' moods. The experiment was done on 689,000 users, and it changed the items they were shown on Facebook to attempt to make them feel more positive or more negative. And it worked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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